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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (Reuters) - The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, sparking a global outcry from animal lovers, returned to work on Tuesday at his suburban Minneapolis office to shouts of "murderer" and "leave town" from a half dozen protesters.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's financial capital has banned the slaughter and sale of meat for four days this month following a demand from the strictly vegetarian Jain community, sparking outrage among meat-eaters already upset by a permanent beef ban imposed this year.<br clear='all'/><img...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Eight policemen were killed in Tajikistan on Friday after armed gunmen attacked state security buildings in the Central Asian nation, the country's interior ministry said on its website.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government has called on Sinn Fein to help ensure the Irish Republican Army is put "firmly out of business" after police in Northern Ireland said the party's former military wing might have been involved in a recent murder.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LA ROCHELLE, France (Reuters) - Young Socialist Party members booed the French prime minister at a party dinner on Saturday, calling for the resignation of his economy minister, whom they accuse of favoring business over Socialist ideals, participants said on Sunday.<br clear='all'/><img...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt summoned the British ambassador to reject as "unacceptable interference" comments he made on an Egyptian court's decision to hand down prison sentences for three Al Jazeera journalists, state television said on Sunday.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Catholic former archbishop accused of child sex offences was found dead on Friday, the Vatican said, a month after he was hospitalized on the eve of his trial.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two executives of the company that runs the website of the Chinese Communist Party's top newspaper are being investigated for corruption, the state prosecutor said on Friday, the latest blemish on state media caught up in a crackdown on graft.<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Venezuela and Colombia each recalled their ambassadors to the other country on Thursday, amid a diplomatic crisis sparked when socialist-run Venezuela closed two border crossings and deported over a thousand Colombians.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has recalled the country's ambassador to Venezuela after the Socialist country closed two border crossings and deported over a thousand Colombians.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Around 1.5 million Zimbabweans are predicted to go hungry this year after a dramatic fall in maize production, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain must remain cautious in its relations with Iran, foreign minister Philip Hammond said on Monday, after he reopened the British embassy in Tehran nearly four years after it was stormed by protesters.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on all political forces in the country on Sunday to rally behind his plans for constitutional change aimed at ending a separatist conflict in the east and defeating what he termed the "Russian aggressor".<br clear='all'/><img width='1'...

KUWAIT (Reuters) - In a signal of the most striking thaw in the Western ties with Iran for over a decade, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will reopen the British embassy in Tehran nearly four years since protesters ransacked the elegant ambassadorial residence and burned the Union Jack.<br...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States proposed on Wednesday implementing a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions from Sept. 6 unless President Salva Kiir signs a peace deal to end the country's 20-month conflict.<br clear='all'/><br/><br/><a...

TIANJIN, China (Reuters) - Chinese state media on Wednesday appeared to convict executives of a company whose chemical warehouse exploded last week killing 114 people of slipshod practices at least, saying they used connections to obtain fire safety and environmental approvals.<br...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's government and opposition joined forces to push through legislation making it harder for firms to sack workers, pleasing powerful unions but angering employers who said it would hurt an already struggling economy.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

HARARE (Reuters) - The game park owner accused of letting an American tourist illegally hunt and kill a lion on his property in Zimbabwe has been charged in connection with the killing and released on bail in Hwange, his lawyer said.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...

(Reuters) - The teenage daughter of a wealthy German businessman was killed during a botched kidnapping attempt, police said on Tuesday after a four-day intense search that gripped the nation.<br clear='all'/><img width='1' height='1'...